People

Bates College (Lewiston, Me.): Appointed Victoria M. Devlin, vice-president for development and marketing at the WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston), to be vice-president for development and alumni affairs.

Bethphage Foundation (Omaha): Appointed Tom Bila, senior partner and director at Bila & Associates (East Longmeadow, Mass.), to be president and chief executive officer; Maurice Burke, co-founder and former executive director of the St. Louis Blues Heritage Festival, to be public-information director; and Linda Harvey, former public-relations director at the Y.W.C.A. of Topeka (Kan.), to be publications coordinator. Bethphage is an affiliate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that provides services for disabled people.

Boston U.: Appointed Lynn E. Hendricks, associate director of development at Tufts U. School of Dental Medicine (Boston), to be director of major gifts for the School of Medicine.

Center for Community Change (Washington): Appointed Andrew Mott, deputy executive director for planning and program development, to be executive director. He succeeds Pablo Eisenberg, who is retiring at the end of June.

Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago): Appointed Robert Lieberman, manager of the division of energy and environmental assessment at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (Springfield), to be chief executive officer.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Appointed Louise W. Mackie, curator of the textile department at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), to be curator of textiles and Islamic art.

Datahr Rehabilitation Institute (Brookfield, Conn.): Appointed Sharon Danosky, president and founder of S. J. Danosky Associates (Pawling, N.Y.), to be vice-president of development.

Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society (Sioux Falls, S.D.): Appointed Judith Ryan, associate director of patient-care services at the U. of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Iowa City), to be president and chief executive officer, effective July 1.

Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation for Educational Change (Indianapolis): Appointed D. Mark Helmus, director of development at the Ruth Lilly Health Education Center (Indianapolis), to be director of development.

Getty Education Institute for the Arts (Los Angeles): Announced the resignation of Leilani Lattin Duke, director, effective June 30.

Glessner House Museum (Chicago): Appointed Donna Magnani, director of development and public affairs at Lambs Farm (Libertyville, Ill.), to be executive director.

GuideStar (Williamsburg, Va.): Appointed Linda Sundro, inspector general at the National Science Foundation (Washington), to be director of Washington programs. GuideStar is a non-profit organization that provides information on the programs and finances of American charities.

Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Joseph V. Osterman, former director of environmental and life sciences in the office of the director, defense research and engineering at the U.S. Department of Defense (Arlington, Va.), to be vice-president of scientific affairs.

Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (Los Angeles): Appointed Deirdre Dooley, director of annual giving, to be vice-president of development.

Jewish Theological Seminary (New York): Appointed Mark Grossmann, New England regional director for the Jewish National Fund (Boston), to be director of the Boston development office, and Stephanie Millman Smerling, director of development at the Council for the Jewish Elderly (Chicago), to be associate director of the Midwest development office, in Chicago.

The League for People with Disabilities (Baltimore): Appointed Janice Frey-Angel, executive director of Jewish Family & Child Service (Portland, Ore.), to be chief executive officer.

Lees-McRae College (Banner Elk, N.C.): Appointed Jeffrey S. Boggan, former director of advancement at the Pi Kappa Phi Foundation (Charlotte, N.C.), to be director of development and alumni affairs.

Lincoln Land Community College (Springfield, Ill.): Charles T. Dillon, vice-president for planning and institutional advancement, has been appointed president of West Shore Community College (Scottville, Minn.).

Literacy Volunteers of America (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed Patricia P. Rajala, executive director of Literacy Volunteers of Westchester County (Elmsford, N.Y.), also to be director of resource development.

National Kidney Foundation (New York): Appointed Mary Jo Moore, a senior management consultant at the Center for Management Assistance (Kansas City, Mo.), to be affiliate-relations director.

ONE/Northwest (Seattle): Appointed Eva Shinagel, director of the Coalition for Charitable Choice (Seattle), to be development director. ONE/Northwest provides technological assistance to conservation groups in the northwestern United States and Canada.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Washington): Appointed Kirsten Kingdon, a lawyer at Kohn & Einstein (Washington), to be executive director.

The Phillips Collection (Washington): Appointed Jay Gates, director of the Dallas Museum of Art, to be director. He succeeds Charles S. Moffett, who left in April to become co-chairman of Impressionist and modern art for Sotheby’s.

Public Broadcasting Service (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Laurel Alexander, director of major and planned gifts at the U. of Virginia Law School (Charlottesville), to be director of major and planned gifts; Clinton O’Brien, chief operating officer and general manager of content properties at SMIP Interactive (Vienna, Va.), to be director of business development for PBS Online; and Alison White, coordinating producer at The History Channel (Boston), to be director of fund-raising programs.

Rock the Vote (Santa Monica, Cal.): Appointed Donna Frisby, development director and acting executive director, to be executive director, and Seth Matlins, former senior vice-president at ProServ (Washington), the sports and entertainment marketing company, to be president.

Saint Anne’s Hospital (Fall River, Mass.): Appointed Debra L. Curless, director of volunteer service and philanthropy officer at the Southcoast Health System (Fall River, New Bedford, and Wareham, Mass.), to be director of development.

Southern Home Services (Philadelphia): Appointed Gregory W. Jones, associate executive director at the Women’s Christian Alliance (Philadelphia), to be executive director.

St. John’s U. (Jamaica, N.Y.): Appointed MaryLee Thorne, deputy director of external affairs and institutional advancement at the New Jersey Historical Society (Newark), to be major-gift officer.

St. Mary’s U. (San Antonio): Appointed Thomas B. Galvin, executive director of development, to be vice-president for university advancement.

United Way of Central Indiana (Indianapolis): Appointed Louis Lopez, senior aide to Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, to be director of public policy and community response.

Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (D.C.): Appointed Kyle Farmbry, founder of the Children’s Education Fund (Washington), to be director of diversity-leadership programs; Robert E. Henderson, manager of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship and Democratic Development Programs at the Institute of International Education (New York), to be director of internships; and Nan Dawkins Scully, a consultant who most recently worked with the Development Group for Alternative Policies (Washington), to be director of women’s-leadership programs.

WNYC (New York): Appointed Dean Cappello, senior director of news and information and executive producer of National Public Radio’s On the Media program, to be vice-president for programming.

The World Resources Institute (Washington): Appointed Andrew Dvorshak, director of corporate fund raising at the National Organization on Disability (Washington), to be associate director of corporate relations and development; Allen L. Hammond, director of strategic analysis, also to be senior scientist; and Frances J. Seymour, director of the International Financial Flows and the Environment Project and the Resources Policy Support Initiative for Southeast Asia, to be director of the new Institutions and Governance Program.

GRANT MAKERS

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Larry Coppard, director of external relations at the U. of Michigan School of Social Work (Ann Arbor), to be senior consultant; Bridgett Lomax, arts-project coordinator at Focus: HOPE (Detroit), to be program associate; Jamel Mayers, accountant at Wayne State U. (Detroit), to be financial officer; and Ronald Whiteside, records coordinator for the City of Southfield (Mich.), to be grants manager.

W. Alton Jones Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.): Appointed Glenn Holley, chief financial officer, to be deputy director for administration; Karen Peabody O’Brien, executive assistant to the director, to be program officer for new ventures; and George Perkovich, director of the Secure World Program, to be deputy director for programs.

Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (Washington): Appointed Rebecca Bliss, program officer at the Corporation for National Service (Washington), to be program officer.

Prince Charitable Trusts (Chicago): Appointed Kristin Pauly, director of urban and metropolitan programs at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Annapolis, Md.), to be senior program officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Access Living (Chicago): Elected Karen McCulloh, president of Karen McCulloh & Associates (Morton Grove, Ill.), which advises organizations on disability issues, to be chairperson of the Board of Directors.

American Lung Association (New York): Elected Linda B. Ford, a physician specializing in allergy and immunology (Papillion, Neb.), to be president.

Association of Small Foundations (Washington): Elected Robert N. DiLeonardi, executive director of the VNA Foundation (Chicago), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Bet Tzedek Legal Services (Los Angeles): Elected Nancy Sher Cohen, managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Housing Opportunities for Women (Silver Spring, Md.): Elected Sharon Dworkin Bell, an executive in investor relations at Fannie Mae (Washington), to be president of the board.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.): Elected Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Harvard U. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, Mass.), to be a trustee.

Jerome Foundation (St. Paul): Elected A. Rodney Boren, managing director of the Resource Companies (Minneapolis), and Seitu Jones, a visual artist based in St. Paul, to the Board of Directors.

New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy: Elected Nancy Simpson-Banker, vice-president of philanthropy at Faulkner Hospital (Boston), to be president.

Sierra Health Foundation (Sacramento, Cal.): Elected Manuel A. Esteban, president of California State U. at Chico, to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Bill Taylor, Association Consulting (Washington): Bill Taylor, president and chief executive officer of the American Society of Association Executives (Washington), has announced plans to form this new company in August.

Brakeley, John Price Jones (Stamford, Conn.): Appointed Rhonda Gelman Kelley, vice-president, to be senior vice-president, responsible for the new Pittsburgh office.

Curran & Conners (Hauppauge, N.Y.): Appointed Leigh Cagle, account executive at the Atlanta office, to be regional manager of the Charlotte, N.C., office, and Paul Sienkiewich, senior art director, to be regional vice-president of creative services. Curran & Conners designs annual reports for non-profit groups and foundations.

Dimac Direct (Boston): Appointed Stephanie MacDonald, associate at Nike B. Whitcomb Associates (Chicago), to be director of fund raising. Dimac Direct is a direct-marketing services company with headquarters in St. Louis.

Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.): Appointed Charles S. Cadigan, vice-president of TransAmerica Marketing Services (Vienna, Va.), to be vice-president of the fund- raising and membership services group at the company’s new Washington office.

Ford/Anderson (Atlanta): Appointed Amy Crowder, an intern in the office of annual giving at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), to be a campaign assistant. Ford/Anderson offers fund-raising services to private schools.